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Analysis of White Sand Street Asylum - Part 3

Includes Full Character Analyses for: Freddy, Kreacher, Emma, Emily, Leo, Robbie and Dolores, Kurt, Ada and Emil, Alice.

Beginning: Asylum Analysis Part 1

Previous: Asylum Analysis Part 2

Soon after, the evaluations begin.

1 of those being evaluated is Kurt Frank.

Kurt was born in Yorkshire, England to parents who, even when Kurt was young, constantly moved around. They went “from England to Italy, then to France, and then to England again”, with young Kurt always surrounded by “all kinds of adult travelers”. Unfortunately, his parents are described as never paying him much (if any) attention: “Whenever he looked up, he could only see the tight jawline of his parents and their hurried figures that never looked down”. As Kurt is described as “working class”, it is likely his parents were the type who spent all their time and energy on their work, and thus by the end of the day had none to spare for their son. This means they likely didn’t attempt to help Kurt to really understand all the foreign places they took him too. Based on how he was surrounded by “adult travelers”, it is likely much of what he encountered wasn’t a place for kids, and possibly due to his parents’ work.

Everything was huge, confusing, and overwhelming, leaving Kurt feeling “small and powerless and out of place”. This is no surprise considering the constant moving left Kurt with no stability, making him feel unsettled and disconnected, like he had no safe place to call home. He also had no guidance or support from his parents, leaving him feeling neglected amid chaos. And without any form of stability, he likely never stayed around in 1 place long enough to form any long-term relationships. Neither did he have much control over anything, as he was subject to his parents’ decisions.

Kurt’s backstory continues from here by saying “This early feeling of being ignored led Kurt Frank to develop a typical avoidant personality”. Avoidant personality disorder (APD) is characterized by severe and chronic social anxiety. People with this disorder have a long-standing pattern of social avoidance accompanied by hypersensitivity to negative evaluation (aka fear of criticism, rejection, ridicule, etc…) and low self-worth so pervasive that it defines who a person is. They will be easily and extremely hurt by any type of criticism in any situation. They avoid making new friends and trying new activities unless they’re absolutely sure they’ll be liked and accepted without rejection, criticism, or ridicule. They tend to be shy, quiet, “invisible” (aka tend to hide using their clothing or by staying in the background in social situations), and lonely, but they’re different from schizoid people. The avoidant person wants social contact but is afraid of rejection, whereas the schizoid or schizotypal person is completely indifferent to such contact.

Due to being ignored by his parents, Kurt turned to books to escape his reality and his fear of rejection. His backstory says it was also due to him having “trouble concentrating” and a disinterest in going outside. His favorite novel was Gulliver’s Travels, where he “imagined he was a great adventurer and refused to accept the actual situation”. In this world, he was the hero. There was no more feeling of not fitting in. A world where everyone accepted him. He was important. He received all the love and concern he wanted here. It was also a place where he could essentially design it however he wanted, and thus a place he understood perfectly well (compared to everything else).

Even though Kurt couldn’t make real friends, he was able to play with his imaginary ones, and his imaginary world continued to expand as he continued reading.

Eventually Kurt goes to college, but his “bushy mustache” causes him to argue with others often, leading to him being an “outlier”. Unable to get approval from others, this causes issues with his avoidant personality, and he starts avoiding going to school, something that disappoints his father. He attempted to stress the importance of college if Kurt wanted to be successful in the future, like they were, but Kurt didn’t care. He couldn’t handle the ridicule and rejection from his classmates. He couldn’t even talk about his problems to his parents because they didn’t understand nor care. They never had and they never would. His relationship with them had been strained for as long as he could remember, and this on top of his problems at school was overwhelming Kurt, who was left to handle it all on his own.

Without the proper emotional support or help from anyone, he funnels his emotions into horse racing, but Kurt “lacked the vision and brains to invest” and “lost all his living expenses and even owed a loan shark”.

This forces him to completely drop out of college. His parents, left with no choice, send him into the army hoping it would “correct his behavior”.

Initially, Kurt was likely quite unhappy with his situation. He didn’t want to deal with the increased social interactions, new people, new activities, and everything. But as usual, he didn’t have a choice. Fortunately, he had been able to bring his book with him, allowing him to escape from his new reality at least temporarily.

Eventually, Kurt decides to “boast” about his “adventure experience” to his comrades. There weren’t many ways for men at the barracks to amuse themselves with, especially when far from home and family, and Kurt thought this would “cheer everyone up”.

Initially, all goes well. The other men are “captivated” by his experiences, and he earns the attention and praise Kurt has always wanted, the approval he’s never received even from his own parents.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t last. The men eventually discover Kurt had been lying and the stories he shared were only from books he read, rather than experiences he actually lived through. His skills aren’t anywhere as good as he claimed, and the men in general don’t appreciate being tricked or lied to. Soon, Kurt becomes reviled and an outcast similar to how he’d been at college.

 With Kurt’s avoidant personality once again triggered, his mental state deteriorates. He wants to prove them wrong. He wants them to know that he is a real explorer, and he has gone through all these things. He goes a bit off the deep end, and ends up getting into trouble.

Kurt had said he wanted to remain in the army for “as long as his health allowed”, but due to his increasing inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality, he is labeled as mentally ill and sent to White Sand Street Asylum. This is based on the title of deduction 9 being “Road-blocking ‘Dragons’” (dragons, like an enemy or threat), with the line “These giant, fanged...dragons! You can't stop an explorer!” essentially depicting him being taken away.

This is confirmed via the event Kurt’s Wondrous Journeys. In the event, he says White Sand Street is the center of his world. So, on the center of his map, he drew a circle to represent “the origin of my adventure, and surround it with triangles, representing trees” (via drawing a “1” under each triangle”). He later talks about people using “fears to stop you” and how “nothing but monsters and danger await you, should you ever leave”. It’s at this point he says, “If you turn these triangles upside down, they are the shape of a dragon's terrible fangs, a symbol of unknown terror, and the ultimate price—death” (and we know terror and death both happen at the asylum).

In the Asylum, we learn during his reassessment that he is indicated to have “Delusional Schizophrenia”. I’m not sure this is an actual thing, so I tried checking the translations of other versions (as best I as I could). So far, I think the more appropriate terms I saw were “delusions of grandeur” and “schizophrenia”.

Delusion of grandeur is a false belief in one’s power or importance. It may be a symptom of a mental health disorder and can cause confusion between what is real and what is not. The strength of a delusion is based on how much the person believes it. Specifically, a delusion of grandeur is a person’s belief that they are someone other than who they are, or a belief that they have special abilities, possessions, or powers.

Many types of mental health disorders can lead to delusions, including schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder that causes people to interpret reality abnormally. They don’t know what sights, sounds, and experiences are real or what they are imagining. It usually involves delusions (false beliefs), hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that don’t exist), unusual physical behavior, and disorganized thinking and speech. With treatment, most symptoms of schizophrenia can greatly improve and reduce the likelihood of a reoccurrence.

In any case, Duke eventually asks Lorraine to discharge Kurt. Lorraine, who is currently the head of the asylum now that Duke has become a bishop, believes Kurt can’t be discharged due to the persistence of his delusions. Kurt claims “he had flown solo across the English Channel, possesses extraordinary survivalist skills, and is capable of the construction and operation of, including but not limited to, Blimps”. Lorraine adds that his delusions evolve “in a scale of grandiose when exposed to outside influences”. She worries, even though he is not violent now, he could pose a threat later due to his “deteriorating mental health stability and elevating delusions” and “eloquence in persuasion”.

But Kurt has other ideas. He has no desire to remain in the asylum, which he starts thinking of like he’s back at school, and is willing to do anything if it means getting out.

Life at the asylum hasn’t gotten any better.

We see in Kurt’s Wondrous Journeys how he describes the place: a “great gray structure” whose interior is all that many of the patients “have ever known”. The corridors are “long” and “lined with heavy, iron doors”, behind which the patients live, awaiting “inspection” from the “King”.

The “King” card we have during this event shows one side looking like a king, but the other is a nun. The card reads “They try to use love to lock other people down”. It is clear the “King” here is meant to represent Lorraine.

1 of the things still limiting the patients’ freedom is the medicine, which is likely represented by “Tea Time”. They were given that medicine at the “beginning” of each day.

The size of the rooms for the patients behind the “heavy, iron doors” were likely “only 52 inches long”.

As another side note, one of the other cards is of a chair that may symbolize the same one Emma used when she was getting electroshock treatment. I wonder if it could imply he got electroshock treatment while he was there as well?

Either way, we know Kurt does eventually leave the asylum to go to the manor.

What we do have is Kurt’s deduction 11. It talks about a “battle between Don Quixote and the Biscayan up close”, after which Kurt says “Obviously, I managed to get out of there”. Don Quixote being the man obsessed with becoming a knight and reviving chivalry who, in his delusional state, charges at windmills he mistakes for giants. Biscayan, who’s passing by, thinks he’s mad and, misunderstanding the situation, challenges Don Quixote to a duel. Don Quixote, driven by his delusions of grandeur, manages to disarm the Biscayan. Kurt is likely to represent Don Quixote. The Biscayan, symbolizing a skilled opponent, could represent Lorraine, who is the one fighting to keep Kurt at the asylum.

Maybe this means that Lorraine lost her argument or “battle” to keep him there, thus implying Duke forced her to let him go (or maybe Kurt somehow reasoned with her himself, in something like a battle of wits, and via his “eloquence of persuasion” was able to convince her to let him go).

Kurt may have even been the first patient to leave, potentially the same one mentioned in the asylum backstory. This is important as, after this first person, Lorraine, according to the asylum backstory, left her resignation in her office and disappeared. The Church quickly moved the remaining patients from the White Sands Street Asylum and closed it down (as ordered by the government after the locals questioned if the asylum should be allowed after Dolores’ killing spree).

Before the asylum closes, the events of Ada’s and Emil’s stories occur, though I do not know exactly when.

Emil was the youngest son of a poor couple, where he had 3 other siblings. The mother seems to have been suffering from a type of mental illness, and it was difficult for Emil’s father to care for her as well as 4 kids. As a result, he sold his youngest to an underground dog fighting ring. His new owners at first didn’t care for him, but this all changed after Emil snuck into the pit and managed to make it out alive. His owners, seeing the reaction of the audiences, decided to continue to utilize him that way for more money, and Emil was forced to grow accustomed to this life, where he saw himself more as another dog than a person.

He’d never known real love. He’d only ever been seen as an object that others only saw in terms of how to get value for themselves. All Emil knew was if he wanted to survive, he had to fight for it, and so he did. Living conditions were horrid, with him being forced to live in a “kennel” with “shackles locked around his ankles” and barely enough food to sustain himself with, and what he was given was of poor quality. He also wasn’t given proper treatment for his wounds, which he acquired plenty of by the vicious dogs in the ring that would always attempt to tear him apart without restraint, or to ensure he stayed healthy. He was on his own. His owners didn’t care if he lived or died. If he did, they could just get another dog and continue on their merry way.

Emil wasn’t satisfied with being a “plaything of nobles” and always forced to survive the dog fighting ring, so one day he manages to escape. Unfortunately, he ends up with a high fever and forgets everything, and this is when he’s taken “by the asylum who defrauded charity funds”.

The asylum uses a “staggering amount of sedatives on its patients”, including sleeping pills and tranquilizers, to keep their patients under control and from being able to fight back. Emil is so high on these that he feels like he’s “floating away”. They do this as they diagnose Emil with “manic fits” and “severe aggressive tendencies”. This is why they keep his hand “cuffed to the bed” and lock him in “solitary confinements known as the ‘Cages’”, which is only for the “most dangerous patients”.

He suffers greatly due to their painful treatments, but he “always accepted being manipulated obediently”. And then everything starts to change when he meets Ada.

Ada, unlike Emil, was from a “relatively affluent middle-class family” where “every step in her life has been strictly planned” by her doctor father and teacher mother. She didn’t have much of a childhood, as she had “few playmates her own age” and spent most of her time “communicating with adults or reading”.

She is sent to university, where she enters “the school's psychological laboratory for research”. As a medical genius, she is awarded “the position of assistant professor of psychology”.

This is likely because her father had been training her from a young age and had her watching him since she was at least 13.

Ada has been researching hypnotherapy and the “idea of eliminating a patient's pain or negative emotions with subliminal suggestions”. This is likely the 1st time she’s actually chosen something for herself, yet no one, not even her own father, a “leading authority in psychiatry”, “had much faith in me”.

She explains the issues she had with her research: “The patients provided by the academy where I studied couldn't be hypnotized while they were in pain, and after countless failures… I had to devise a new method...”. Unfortunately, her “private experiment was discovered and those people pulled the plug on my research”.

Ada thinks very lowly of other doctors who stop her from this research. Her goal is to help the mentally ill, while most other doctors just follow “the latest academic fads” and use the mentally ill for “turning profits”.

I imagine the reason for Ada’s desire to help people likely started due to her encounter 1st encounter with Emil, who she found starving in the street. She bought him bread, but her father refused to help Emil when she asked. Ada couldn’t understand why. I think from then she likely began to look down on her father’s actions. Her father was probably like the other doctors, someone who followed the latest “fads”, was primarily interested in profit, and utilized treatments that Ada wouldn’t always agree with, just like how she looks down on what the asylum is doing.

Ada says she used to utilize the same methods in the past, but “that was a long time ago”. This could also refer to potentially what she used to do in her desperation for her hypnotherapy experiments at college to work, before the plug was pulled. That would explain why she’d describe “tormenting patients for the sake of my research”.

Not giving up, Ada travels to various hospitals and clinics, looking for some place where she can carry out her experiments and hopefully find a patient who will give her success.

It’s during this period that Ada goes to White Sand Street Asylum for an “eleven-day medical training program here”.

While looking at the list of patients, specifically at those labeled dangerous, she notices “a person without a surname on the list, Emil”. She watched the doctors give him electroshock therapy, and how, unlike other patients, he “didn't seem as terrified”. “When his treatment was over, he even smiled at the doctors... A mindless, yet eerily natural smile...”. She’d never seen someone react like this: “He didn't try to avoid or resist the pain inflicted on him. Even though his consciousness was tenuous at best, he instinctively showed signs of joy”.

Eventually, she finds herself alone with Emil, who was “trembling and gasping violently”. Taking a chance, she found that “when I blew my whistle, he would become surprising calm”. Ada figures out his past based on the only possession Emil had been found with, a dog collar, and why he reacts the way he does to the whistle.

Emil is the first person Ada’s encountered who could “respond to hypnotism while under intense pain”, which was part of the reason her experiments had failed in the past. It is at this point she decides to mess with the medications the asylum was giving Emil, so Emil could be more “cognizant” even though it’d bring “greater pain”. The next day, Emil does suffer more from the electroshock therapy, but just like before, he calms down once he hears Ada’s whistle. Ada is ecstatic to finally find the “perfect candidate for my experiments”.

Ada gradually reduces his medication over the next few days. Once he was conscious enough, she tells him she’d taken away his pain medication. Ada is conflicted, and wonders if what she’s doing is alright, and seeks answers for herself based on whether Emil forgives her. When she asks him “Ada or medicine”, he responds with “Ada” despite Emil knowing this meant more pain, which relieves her worries and makes her feel “elated beyond words”.

Despite the fact Ada initially only saw Emil only in terms of him being a perfect candidate for her experiments, she gradually starts to “develop feelings for him”. She knows she is going to have to leave soon, but due to the fact she’d grown quite attached to him, she decides she wants him to leave with her.

Emil is grateful to Ada for her helping to wake him up. He says he’s stopped experiencing the nightmare about his past that’s plagued him “for as long as I can remember”. And so, when he receives a gift of a flower from her one day, not knowing what was a proper way to react in response to getting a gift, fashions a ring for her from his bed wire.

Ada is touched by his return gift, as this was the “first time a patient had shown me understanding and gratitude”. This only hardens her resolve to get him out of the asylum.

As they prepare to make their escape at dawn, Ada mentions the staff will be on high alert until then because a patient, a “young girl” managed to escape from the asylum. This is likely to be Lisa, who we know escapes from the asylum based on the fact she is using a fake name to hide her identity.

Eventually, the 2 do manage to escape from the asylum. Ada takes them to a “new home” that’s “faraway” with “no people around” and requires “getting there in a car”.

They live like this for 3 years, but unfortunately, Emil starts growing worse. “Emil has begun to have frequent headaches again, and his self-awareness is declining...I can't watch him lose himself and go back to the pathetic way he was before. I can't lose him again, my one and only love...”. His other symptoms include “Anxiety disorder, OCD, hallucinations, dementia, and recurring night terrors”.

One potential solution to her current issue comes in the form of Orpheus, who Ada 1st met while at the asylum. Orpheus is offering to try the “latest treatment” on Emil in exchange for Ada giving Orpheus the list of patient files of White Sand Street Asylum. Ada is skeptical at first, and initially directs him to her father’s clinic, who she says may be “the type of doctor who will get along with you”. This I think is a bit of sarcasm to imply she thinks him and her father are both the bad type of people/doctor that she doesn’t like. She did say she didn’t believe in his “method of finding inspiration from patients in the asylum”. However, after some amount of time and Emil’s condition only worsens, she decides to eventually agree to the deal and heads to the manor.

Besides potentially as “inspiration” for his novels, another reason Orpheus is likely interested in the patients of the asylum is because that is where Alice was sent. After the tragedy that killed Alice’s parents in 1887, Alice was sent to the asylum due to her supposedly having gone “insane”.

Orpheus wants to visit her, but is declined because Alice is currently “unstable” and they want to “minimize external stimulation” since he would remind her of “what happened in the past” which “wasn’t a great memory to her”. Instead, they tell him a “kind individual” took notice and “offered a significant amount of financial assistance to the orphanage and put together an excellent treatment package designed exclusively for Alice”.

Orpheus is less than enthused as he writes “LIAR!” at the bottom of the letter. But we also know Orpheus to an extent was right as Alice “experienced both mental and physical torture in the orphanage” (aka the asylum).

This “individual” was Villhelm Lamb, a “medical professor” that “secretly adopted” her for the purpose of using her as an “experimental subject”. It was for this reason that he took her to “Melbourne when she was 14 years old”.

Her backstory states “With prolonged medication and physical therapy, she gradually regained consciousness, however, it is perhaps more cruel to live soberly in hell than to live unaware in human world”. But as we can see from flashes of her past, this wasn’t a very happy time due to all the experiments she was subjected to.

We can see that some of the drugs used on Alice included Mnemosyne and Siren’s Song. Mnemosyne is the drug that makes a person forget, and considering what we heard in Orpheus’ letter from the asylum, it is likely they were trying to make her forget the tragedy (potentially as a way to stabilize her). Siren’s Song is the hallucinogenic. Maybe they were giving her this as another way to somehow help her regain her mental stability (unless this was a mistake, but I’m not sure).

We can also see one of the people shown working on Alice includes someone who looks strikingly like Orpheus, so it’s likely he somehow managed to get himself involved to see Alice again and may be wanting to do this to her as some way to help (though it is clear this isn’t entirely a good thing and Alice wants to get away).

In any case, Alice does eventually manage to escape back to England when she’s 21, where she becomes a “social journalist in anonymity, looking for the truth about the tragedy and the disappearance of her playmates”.

We can see from her deductions though that someone likely wants to eliminate Alice. Considering the similarities, I believe it’s possible whoever this is has hired the crime syndicate that was first mentioned during Luchino’s 1st letter to go after her, with their conclusion being she needs eliminated.

Alice’s deductions 8-10 appear to be written by a different author than the one who wrote 1-7, meaning it is likely no longer the crime syndicate talking, meaning whoever hired the syndicate has hired someone else to go after Alice. This new hired person seems to suspect that Orpheus and Alice are “much closer than expected” based on Alice’s deduction 8. Considering Norton’s 2nd letter, it is possible he is this new person hired to go after Alice. There’s also how this person says they initially believed Alice’s “recklessness and bravery were just a front”, which is very similar to how Norton calls the female he was to target as “arrogant”, before Alice’s deduction 9 continues by saying they realize this was a mistake, “it is neither a front nor bravery”. This is likely because Alice’s “sense of fear” is “significantly weaker than normal” after the experiments Villhelm put her through. The last deduction, where it asks what the subject thinks she saw vs what she actually saw, which can relate to how during Ashes of Memory Alice sees Mary and Fool’s Gold instead of Frederick and Norton.

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Having a bad night, so I made this so I can post this and go to bed knowing I have something to look forward to.

[oblacko-san]

[ladymoony-art]

Father Duke outed Kreacher as a thief to steal his orphanage...

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Kreacher Pierson

"Lower your body, slow down, don't get caught. This is my specialty." - Kreacher Pierson (Identity V)

Stimboard Request for @meowitsashy based off of Kreacher Pierson from Identity V! Hope you like it pooks! Requests are OPEN! - Likes + Reblogs are appreciated!!

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Made some magical girl design for the IDV veterans!

[randouserdoesthings]

just some art of a Hunter Identity of Kreacher Pierson that I made nothing much.

[aceofclove]

Servais: Do you have any shaving cream?

Kreacher: No I dont like the taste

Servais: ...wait you eat shaving cream?

Kreacher: No, why would I eat shaving cream if I dont like the taste?

[twelvepackofsaltybones]

"If he had stuck it out, slept and ate less, maybe he wouldn’t have had to take the deal. He would've been an honest man, a philanthropist, a damn hero. And then, maybe, he would’ve been liked— hell, maybe even loved."

Illustration for Kreacher Pierson's Birthday, 2022

[kingrayii]

Paperthin AU on AO3

This was a very ambitious project I did, and I am still very proud of it! Recently I updated the files there, and the whole comic is working again! So go check it out, if you haven't yet!

[stardust-borne]

Emily: Kreacher, get out of the way, you- rodent!

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Analysis of White Sand Street Asylum - Part 2

Includes Full Character Analyses for: Freddy, Kreacher, Emma, Emily, Leo, Robbie and Dolores, Kurt, Ada and Emil, and Alice.

Previous: Asylum Analysis Part 1

Freddy, in the meantime, has married Martha and only refers to Leo as an “idiot” after learning of the factory fire that likely claimed his life.

However long it’s been, we know Martha is in the “early stages of pregnancy” at the time the fire occurs. She is diagnosed with “mild anxiety” according to Dr. Mesmer (Ada’s father most likely), who recommends “rest supplemented by the prescribed medicine”.

During that same trip, he asks to talk to Freddy later about his “investment in ‘that hospital’ we mentioned previously”. Ada we know worked at White Sand Street Asylum for a time, but we never heard about if her father worked there too. Most we get regarding where he works is Ada says in Emil’s 1st letter that her Charles Mesmer, who is likely her father as well as “Dr. Mesmer” from Freddy’s letter (as well as Keigan’s deductions), has a clinic.

Martha had no need to go to an asylum. It was more of a regular check-up, especially with her being pregnant, so a clinic makes more sense, especially due to the stigma attached to asylums and mental illness back then.

And speaking of asylums, asylums aren’t the same thing as “hospitals”. Yes the church had a clinic, but the orphanage was renovated into an asylum due to the church using the excuse of many of the kids having mental illnesses.

As a result, I think Sacred Heart Hospital is more likely to be the “hospital” Dr. Mesmer aka Charles Mesmer is referring to. But if so, why is it important to note Dr. Mesmer wants investment for it, and in Freddy’s letter of all places? Sacred Heart Hospital isn’t really referenced in many other places besides its backstory (and Hide and Seek due to the dentist, but that’s someone else). But there is 1 time it is mentioned, and to someone connected to Freddy at that: Leo’s 3rd letter.

Yes I want to suggest Charles Mesmer was the one who took Leo to experiment on him.

The author of Leo’s 3rd letter is never specified or really hinted at. We do know that some “mystery man” found out Leo was alive and where, and has been writing to the author of Leo’s 3rd letter “frequently these days”. We know Leo eventually ends up working at the manor for Orpheus as a punisher/hunter. I think it makes more sense that Orpheus aka Baron DeRoss was the one who found out Leo was alive (the same way Orpheus has found out a lot of the sensitive information on other characters). At which point, he potentially asked for Leo or blackmailed the author of Leo’s 3rd letter in order to force the author to hand Leo to him (the same way he blackmails Emily to come to the manor). Considering the person mentions their previous subjects had an “85% chance of dying” during his experiment, that’s likely the sort of thing Orpheus could use to blackmail them over.

Speaking of dying, the only other time “Dr. Mesmer” (likely Charles Mesmer) appears is in Keigan’s deductions. In her deductions, it mentions an “incident” that he was declared “not guilty” for, after which it mentions Keigan getting a “diagnosis” from Dr. Mesmer as well as a prescription.

This medicine is likely what Keigan used to “spike her brother’s meals and control his diet”, which led to “his health slowly begin to deteriorate” so she could take his place. As the “incident” Dr. Mesmer was found “not guilty” for, combined with how in other versions the “incident” is described as “another medical accident”, the “medicine” Dr. Mesmer gave Keigan is potentially the same stuff that caused the “medical accident”.

Based on the 85% chance of death for subjects of the author of Leo’s 3rd letter’s experiments, these deaths could be the “incident” mentioned with Dr. Mesmer, and their chance of death might be caused by the medicine he gives them. Especially since other versions reference that this is “another” medical accident, which implies there’s been more than 1 of these “incidents” with Dr. Mesmer.

We also already know Ada’s father wasn’t exactly a kind man, considering when Ada asked him to help Emil in her 3rd deduction, he refused, and apparently he’s done so more than once. There’s also how Ada wasn’t asked what she wanted to do or given a choice in the matter based on her 1st deduction, and her father was likely part of the reason for this/part of the problem. So it’s not too hard to imagine he could be experimenting on Leo (as well as be the person behind the 85% death rate for experimental subjects).

So if Charles Mesmer was the one experimenting on Leo (and others), this could be why he asked Freddy, a financial advisor, to help with investment for Sacred Heart Hospital, which is where his experiments were carried out.

I wonder then, if this is true, if at least some of the bodies we see all over the hospital, both in the beta and current, could’ve been his previous (failed) experimental subjects? Something unique (static appears on the monitor as well as over the area) does happen when Ada vs any other character is in the hospital, which could hint towards there being some connection.)

Going back to Freddy and Martha following the fire at the Arms Factory, unlike Freddy, when Martha learns what happened, she becomes upset. So much so, she decides to leave him (via a “secret departure” again before he could stop him, just like Martha did with Leo). The reason she gives is because Freddy hadn’t been “completely honest” with her the 1 time she asked him to be honest regarding Leo’s investment into the Arms Factory. Freddy had said it’d be fine “if the investor had sufficient experience and capital”. Martha learned the factory had “an over 4-figure debt. This shows that Freddy had concealed the truth, and while it hadn’t been a complete lie, the fact is he hadn’t been completely honest like she’d asked him to. This reveals to Martha the kind of person Freddy truly was and she decides to leave, and thus why “I wouldn't stay and listen to what you have to say”.

She then explains her intent to take Lisa out of the orphanage, as well as change “Annecy’s” name (Martha and Freddy’s unborn child) and ensure Annecy and Lisa can grow up to “become an honest person”, before warning Freddy that he’ll have to “pay for what we’ve done”.

Last bit regarding Freddy, but his backstory references he is “Trapped by the failed lawsuits of his past”. There is no further info about this, so I’m uncertain if this is before (and why) he became a financial advisor, or if this is after (or as a result of) the Arms Factory fire and Martha leaving him.

Martha seems to show at least some knowledge of financial matters, as she did try to advise Leo against investing in the factory (based on her letter to Leo when she leaves him). With how she was upset enough over this to leave Freddy, make a jab at him by saying she’d raise her daughters to be “honest”, as well as her warning to him that “No one can get away with their responsibilities, Freddy. We all have to pay for what we’ve done”, I wouldn’t be surprised if the lawsuits Freddy faced were because of her and the factory incident, after which he was forced to take a “humble job with a laughable salary” up until he left for the manor.

From here, we don’t get too many more specifics about Martha. What we do know is she eventually goes to the Lydia Jones Clinic.

Lydia Jones was born to a middle-class family, her “ambition and brilliance” allowing her to become a doctor, despite how difficult this was for women to do at this time. As she did this, she always made sure to “practice on herself before using a syringe on a patient”, “prescribed regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability” and promised “never will I harm a patient”.

Upon getting her medical license, she “rented a tiny shop front with the aim of helping as many people as I could”. This “tiny shop” became the “Lydia Jones Clinic”, which is also located on White Sand Street (specifically at 173 White Sand Street).

Along with her desire to help people, Lydia also looked forward to the clinic as a way to “acquire experience that’s impossible to get in medical school”. Unfortunately, the clinic doesn’t do very well: “Records from June to December. Income and expenses are seriously unbalanced. This clinic is losing money”.

Some of the expenses described include: Worm oil and alcohol, Gauze bandages, Chlorodyne, Plantago asiatica and elecampane, and Quinine.

Worm oil was used to expel and kill parasites, alcohol was used as a solvent, antiseptic, and disinfectant in medical preparations, gauze bandages were of course used for wound dressings, chlorodyne was a medicine in the 19th century used to relieve pain, cause sleepiness and euphoria, and improve diarrhea, and plantago asiatica, elecampane, and quinine were plants used for various medicines (plantago asiatica is said to be used to treat things like liver disease, stomach problems, and urinary system inflammation. Elecampane could be used to treat respiratory issues like asthma and bronchitis. Quinine has been used to treat malaria due to its antiparasitic properties).

The ledger shows these expenses were during 1887. Emma was born in 1876 and 22 at the time of her game, which was in July. Emily is 32 at the time of her game with Emma. Therefore, Emily was born in March 1867, and she would’ve been around 20 in 1887 at this time.

In an attempt to increase profits, Lydia advertises her skills as an “obstetrician” to hopefully attract more customers. As an obstetrician, the specialized nature of their work as well as the distinct patient base, this might’ve enabled Lydia to charge higher fees (or open an avenue for profit from services not available for a normal doctor), and thus hopefully help her clinic out of the red.

It’s likely she earned some of the experience and skills she’d need to advertise as an obstetrician during medical school, though I do wonder if she did any additional study at this point to learn what she needed to before selling her services as an obstetrician (as someone who sought experience not found at medical school, and due to her ambition, she sounds like someone interested and willing to learn).

Going back to the original purpose of Lydia’s clinic, which was to “help as many people” as possible, this is likely the same reason why Lydia begins volunteering at “No. 59 White Sand Street”. The deduction does say “Never forget my oath: No matter the time or place, man or woman, the wellbeing of patients is my sole purpose”.

It’s also possible, like with Kreacher, that maybe they promised her some kind of compensation or benefits if she helped them (and considering how her clinic is losing money, this wouldn’t be too unthinkable).

I believe it’s possible that Lydia began volunteering at the church’s clinic before it merged with Kreacher’s orphanage to become the asylum. And while she’s at the asylum, that’s where she’d encounter Lisa.

Going back to Emma after she’s been sent to the orphanage:

According to what Emma says during the Christmas event, she seemed to do similar work outside (gardening) as Robbie. She apparently enjoyed it enough to where she dreams of owning a flower shop when she’s older. Though also similar to Robbie, she describes life back then as not easy.

She says she “watched the plants grow freely outside the fence”, which shows Lisa’s desire to leave the orphanage. And eventually, Lisa does attempt to escape the church’s mental institution (that she’d been sent to from Kreacher’s orphanage). Kreacher said it happened “10 years or so ago”, meaning Lisa would’ve maybe been 12 at the time, and had been at the orphanage for 3-4 years by that point.

It’s possible the reason Lisa was sent to the Church’s clinic or diagnosed with mental illness could relate to the issues we know she has during her game (not to mention, Lisa’s mother did abandon her, her father wasn’t the same after he came to own the arms factory, she was left at an orphanage, and then she had to deal with her father’s seeming death, so she has been through a lot).

Kreacher discovered Lisa’s escape and “notified the nurse at the asylum to bring her back”. He did this because he was concerned for her safety if she wandered the streets on her own and met any of the real undesirables out there (he knew from his own experience how tough it was out there). Despite his actions, Mr. Macallan, Father Duke’s representative, “took credit and ‘generously’ offered me 13 shillings as a reward”. Macallan obviously wasn’t a great person either, considering his actions as well as the fact 13 shillings is apparently equivalent to “two patients’ portions of bread” (which yea he was probably being cheap, but in a way he was also implying Emma is worth 2 portions of bread if that’s all he was giving for her, which could also be a statement regarding how the church saw all the kids in general), which is why Kreacher calls him “stingy”.

Kreacher we know is 30 at the time of Emma’s game, while Emma is 22. This means that Kreacher was around 16 or 17 when Emma joined his orphanage (based on the fact she was 8 or 9 when she was sent there) and would’ve been around 20 or 21 at the time of her attempt to escape the church.

I’m not quite sure where to put this next bit (due to lack of info), but for now I’m putting it here.

Eventually, the church decides they want to take over Kreacher’s orphanage. We don’t know when exactly this happens in relation to everything else, but I’m assuming it was some time after Kreacher ensured Lisa was returned to the church’s facilities (as I assume once they remove him, he’d be out of the picture, and if he’d been removed, I’m not sure he would’ve been there to stop Lisa’s escape).

Either way, it likely happens after they apply some pressure to Kreacher to do so, who agrees, “generously handing over his business and land to the church”. The church thanks him for his “generosity” and informs him “the government will compensate you for all of your financial losses”. Kreacher’s backstory states this compensation was “significant” but “not enough to build a new orphanage”, despite the fact they told him “White Sand Street needs a new orphanage, and I think that you are the most suitable person to handle it”.

The church, publicly, uses the excuse of many of the orphans having “varying degrees of mental illness” to take over the orphanage and transform it into White Sand Street Asylum.

Considering we know the church previously used a “clinic” at an “abandoned church” and then took over Kreacher’s orphanage before renovating it into the asylum, this would explain why the asylum in game has elements of a church, hospital/clinic, and Kreacher’s original orphanage. They seemed to have literally combined all the existing structures and then just added the mental hospital parts to it.

In any case, once the church takes over and starts renovations, they place Mr. Macallan in charge of the orphanage in Kreacher’s place. Things at first seemed to be better without Kreacher, but unfortunately, now that the church has full control over them, they are now able to do with them as they please.

We know the church continues to “treat” Lisa (whether this was before the church completely took over or not, I’m not quite sure). We don’t know how long it was going on for, but we do know she was receiving “electroshock therapy” at least when she was 14, which was 2 years after her 1st escape attempt.

The one to give Lisa this electroshock therapy was Lydia Jones.

Lisa is said to be 14 at this time, meaning Lydia was around 24, which would’ve been maybe 4 years after that accounting ledger showing Lydia’s expenses (and the fact her clinic was losing money).

Unfortunately for Lydia, by giving Lisa this treatment, it breaks Lydia’s oath to “prescribe regiments for the good of my patients” and never “harm a patient”.

This also isn’t the only bad thing happening to the patients at the asylum. Another example is described in Robbie’s deduction 4, which says the “medical personnel” are to “Rinse a patient's head continuously with cold water” to “calm their crazed mind”. This treatment seems to be given for any unruly or “violent” patients (likely those that attempt to resist), especially as the deduction includes “Shock and fear are part of the treatment”.

White Sand Street Asylum is likely based on London's Bethlem Hospital, an insane asylum that grew in infamy due so much, this hospital is the origin of the word “bedlam”, which essentially refers to a scene of chaos, mayhem, and confusion. It was originally founded (on top of a sewer that frequently overflowed) in 1247 by the Italian bishop Goffredo de Prefetti to raise money for the Crusades. Eventually it became an institution for the insane, and later was moved in 1675 to London. At the front gate were 2 statues: one named "Melancholy" who appeared calm and the other named "Raving Madness" who was chained and angry. The facility gradually became overcrowded, causing a deterioration in living conditions as well as malnourishment. At the same time, it slowly became a more and more inhumane place. The death rate became so bad, the hospital had its own graveyard.

Patients here were little more than prisoners. They could even chain patients (iron bands fastened around the neck, abdomen, and arms) to a wall and be left there for years. Even worse was how the asylum allowed visitors, for a fee, to view the “lunatics” to increase bedlam’s profits. The lucky ones were confined, while the unfortunate were subjected to things like leeches, bloodletting, induced blisters, starvation, beatings, submersion in cold water for long periods, or subjected to “rotational therapy”. This involved a patient sitting on a chair suspended from the ceiling and spun, sometimes more than 100 rotations a minute, to induce vomiting and vertigo (as back then, they believed this would expel their illnesses or whatever was wrong with the patient).

Also symbolic was how the building itself, despite the exterior of the building designed to resemble the Royal Tuileries Palace in Paris, was so heavy and the foundation so weak that the load bearing walls in the front cracked almost immediately. These cracks (which grew worse over time) filled with water as soon as it started raining, leading to dampness and unhealthy conditions.

(The gate for the real building, at least to me, feels at least slightly reminiscent to the orphanage gate we see Lisa standing in front of before it became the asylum.)

White Sand Street Asylum wasn’t any better than Bedlam. Especially as they performed experiments on their patients. As part of these experiments, they gave their patients a type of “medicine” using the excuse that they were “sick” (even though they weren’t). In Robbie’s 2nd letter, it is described as “bitter”, and it seems it causes the kids to feel “dizzy and tired”, so much so that it’s a bit challenging to “hold this piece of charcoal to write”. It also seems to affect their memories, as one of the other kids says “Oh, no, Dolores has started shrieking, too. Can it be that... she doesn't recognize her little crybaby anymore? Hasn't she been throwing out the medicine?”

Speaking of Dolores, it seems she knew the medicine wasn’t actually a good thing, and would pour Robbie’s medicine out the window, then she’d drink hers while Robbie was asleep. Robbie found out and tried Dolores’ “soup” once, but “it wasn’t very good”.

Earlier in the letter, the author of Robbie’s 2nd letter mentions a “viscous metallic liquid”. It’s possible this could be referring to mercury, a metallic element that is liquid at room temperature. Some doctors even had mercury pills. In the past, mercury was believed to have therapeutic properties and thus used in various medical treatments. It could be used to induce sweating or purging, and was a method back then they used to remove toxins from the body or to stimulate the digestive system, and doctors also used it to treat mania. Unfortunately, mercury is highly toxic and can cause severe damage to the nervous system and other organs. Prolonged exposure to mercury can lead to neurological disorders, including tremors, memory loss, and behavioral changes.

Some other effects of mercury poisoning (or mad hatter’s disease) I found included: delirium, hallucinations, loss of memory, loss of consciousness, vivid dreams, depression, suicidal tendency, insomnia, a severe and constant burning sensation and pain in various areas, tremors, dizziness, fever, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea, hypovolemic shock, headaches, paresthesia, ataxia, dysarthria (motor speech disorder), visual field constriction, blindness, and hearing impairment, and emotional disturbances, mental confusion, and behavioral changes (like excessive shyness, marked irritability, excitability), and death.

In fact, calomel, which was seen as a “wonder drug” or “panacea” was commonly used during the 19th century to treat a variety of issues, actually had mercury in it, and could cause mercury poisoning.

In Ada and Emil’s 10 Day Memories event, it includes medicine instructions, which mentions effects of “prolonged and excessive dosages can result in dizziness, hallucinations, loss of consciousness, and other side effects”. Mercury also causes more/worse side effects when a person is dealing with “prolonged” exposure or due to “excessive dosages”, like the Calomel.

Considering how the medicine is described to affect the asylum patients, especially Dolores, this seems to fit.

This also fits with Lydia’s deduction 6, which implies she may have been giving “poisonous drugs” to others while she volunteered at White Sand Street, despite her oath.

Unfortunately, besides this and the electroshock therapy to Lisa, these aren’t the only instances of her breaking her oath. In her desperation to ensure her clinic (the Lydia Jones Clinic) was earning enough money to stay out of the red, she decides to provide “private medical services for female patients”.

Since she was earlier listed as an obstetrician, these “private” only for “females” services that are hinted to be not good based on her deduction saying “Sounds like something strange is going on”, Lydia was likely offering/performing abortions, which were illegal back in the day. Lydia’s reasoning for doing this being “Sometimes, when confronted with life's struggles, you have to compromise” and “Sometimes, you have to break the rules to get what you want”. As we see in Lydia’s 4th letter, she knows she was breaking her oath, but used the excuse of “I had no other choice” to say she wasn’t at fault. It’s not until later that she realizes the truth.

To ensure she wasn’t caught, she threw out anything she acquired after performing an abortion into a bag and let “hungry dogs” rip the bag apart.

Fortunately for Lydia, after beginning to offer these services, she sees “Income has dramatically increased” in just 3 months, and her clinic is finally “turning a profit”.

Unfortunately, these good times don’t last forever for Lydia. It all changes the day Martha Remington comes to Lydia’s clinic.

Despite how we know Martha told Freddy that she’d keep Annecy, their unborn child, it seems she went to Lydia to have an abortion done considering Lyda’s deduction 10 says she (likely the “woman” described here) “underwent an illegal surgery”.

One thought as to why she changed her mind could be because, when she went to pick up Lisa from the orphanage, she saw the horrible conditions there. After which, maybe she felt unfit or unworthy to be a mother and decided to abort Annecy (as well as unable to remove Lisa from the asylum). Another thought is it might have to do with the “mild anxiety” Martha was said to have in Freddy’s 2nd letter. Maybe she didn’t take the “prescribed medicine” when she left, and thus her anxiety might’ve gotten worse.

One last crack theory I had about why the change of heart involves my questions regarding what “medicine” she was given. Considering my earlier theory that Dr. Mesmer aka Charles Mesmer was the person experimenting on Leo as well as how Keigan’s deductions imply Dr. Mesmer was the one who gave Keigan a type of medicine she could use to cause her brother’s health to deteriorate, with this medicine likely being the one from the deduction before that one that caused him to be involved in multiple medical accidents (yet declared not guilty in each). If this is the same medicine being used to weaken/poison her brother, I wonder if this was the same stuff Charles Mesmer could’ve given Martha Remington and potentially maybe why she changed her mind in the end about Annecy and maybe Lisa too.

In any case, she goes to Lydia’s, but the operation/surgery doesn’t go well. According to Lydia’s beta deduction 10, it says the female that is presumably Martha suffered “excessive bleeding” aka hemorrhaging. Hemorrhaging (as well as serious infection) is rare following an abortion but can indicate an incomplete abortion or other complications. In a study of 11,319 medication abortions in 2009 and 2010, hemorrhage occurred in 16 cases (0.14 percent). The need for a blood transfusion – an uncommon occurrence – is an indication of clinically significant hemorrhage.

Most doctors who performed illegal abortions cared only for being well rewarded for their trouble. In the 1960s, these doctors often turned women away if they couldn’t pay $1000 or more in cash. These same doctors also emphasized speed and their own protection. They often didn't use anesthesia because it took too long for women to recover, and they wanted women out of the office as quickly as possible. Almost no one took adequate precautions against hemorrhage or infection.

Typically, the abortionist would forbid the woman to contact him or her again. Often she wouldn't know his or her real name. If a complication occurred, harassment by the law was a frightening possibility. The need for secrecy isolated women having abortions and those providing them.

Given this context, this would explain why, upon Lydia noticing Martha’s excessive bleeding, would’ve fled from the clinic while Martha was still on the operating table.

This is when Lydia writes to Lorraine, stating her inability to continue volunteering at the asylum, and then discussing the “mistakes” being performed at the asylum. This being the fact the children aren’t insane or suffering from mental illness as the church said they were for so long. Lydia states she found this out during her “treatment and evaluation” of Lisa, referring to her electroshock therapy, which Lisa didn’t actually need and likely only did her harm.

After this, Lydia is forced to go on the run, as the punishment for abortions, which were illegal back then, could mean life imprisonment. This is why Lydia changes her name to Emily Dyer. This is also likely why Emily in her backstory is said to eventually/later on be “tired of constantly moving around” and wants to “find a place she can call ‘home’ and ultimately enjoy a life of security and stability”.

One issue I want to call out involves when this (Martha’s operation and death) happens. Based on my attempts, I just can’t get it to make perfect sense.

The factory fire happened when Lisa was 11. Martha leaves Freddy as soon as she hears about the factory’s “4-figure debt” (which is all that is referenced in Freddy’s 1st letter, but it’s likely referring to right after the news of the fire spreads). Martha is already pregnant, meaning if she went to Lydia’s for an abortion, she has less than a year to do so (how long it takes to give birth).

The problem? If the fire was when Lisa was 11, and Martha left Freddy right after she learned of it, meaning she had to have gone to Lydia while Lisa was 11-12, that’s impossible as we know Lydia was still at the asylum performing electroshock therapy on Lisa when Lisa was 14.

It’s possible the public (and Martha) didn’t know about the debt until years after the fire. I’m a bit doubtful of this idea but that doesn’t mean it’s not impossible. Though if this isn’t the answer, I wonder if Netease just made a mistake with the timing here?

Before Martha’s death that forces Lydia to leave the asylum, Lydia seems to have been there the day Robbie died. I believe this is based on Emily’s 4th letter, which includes a mention of “that wailing night in the orphanage”.

Going back to Robbie and Dolores, we know Dolores was tossing Robbie’s medicine so he wouldn’t be affected by it, though Dolores herself kept taking her medicine. This leads to her starting to “shriek”. She isn’t the only one as Robbie’s 2nd letter, when it says she’s “started shrieking, too” implies other children have started doing that, likely because of the “medicine”. As we described earlier, the medicine did include “hallucinations” as an effect, and if the stuff does include mercury, we already described all the possible effects caused by that, and altogether, these things would explain the “shrieking” and why the kid in Robbie’s 2nd letter wonders if Dolores doesn’t recognize Robbie.

Due to Dolores’ mental state continuing to deteriorate as a result of the medicine, she is taken away somewhere else, likely by the asylum doctors. The kid mentions she’s located in an area/room with a “heavy pull-out window there, although it’s always locked” and uses a knife to “pry it open” so he can peek at what’s happening to Dolores.

Robbie’s deduction 7 is a bit different from his letter, though the end result is essentially the same.

His letter implies Dolores got moved to her room the day before due to her deteriorating mental state. Deduction 7 implies she’s been in whatever room she’s in for some time, as Robbie has visited her “after curfew” more than once.

The letter seems to imply he attempted to visit her once (due to this happening between the 24th and 25th) after the move, likely because he could hear her screaming and he wanted to either check on her or make her feel better and died due to the kid from the letter leaving the “heavy pull-out window” open (with the kid blaming himself). Deduction 7 implies the window has been broken for awhile, specifically that the “screws of the window were loose”, as it has already almost chopped off Robbie’s fingers once, and he just got unlucky the day it finally took his head, with Dolores blaming herself for not fixing the window she knew was broken.

For now, I’m assuming the letter is the best version of events to use (mostly just because the 2nd letter is newer than the deductions, and Netease may have tweaked events/story later on for a reason). So maybe Dolores and Robbie were still separated into different rooms even before Dolores was dragged away to the room she was put in on the 24th. Robbie would sneak in “after curfew” and have Dolores tell him the story of the juniper tree because he wants her company. Dolores, who wants to be with her brother, asks why they have to be separated, but Lorraine won’t respond, likely unable to tell her the real reason (because Dolores is particularly unwell, likely because of the medicine). Dolores is later moved when her mental state worsens due to the medicine. The kid unlocks the window with a knife so he can peek at Dolores and what they’re doing to her, but leaves it open when he leaves. That way, on the 25th, Robbie, seeing the open window, attempts to climb in, but is decapitated in the attempt, potentially also because the window frame has a few loose screws.

That same day, volunteers are made to clean up the mess by the window. During this, the volunteer mentions hearing about “a deranged patient attempted to hit the doctors on duty with an axe”. This was likely Dolores upon finding Robbie’s decapitated body, causing her to go out of control, and use his axe to attack the doctors in her room.

Later on, they seem to allow Dolores out, who spends her time “pacing beneath the juniper tree”.

This could be around when Robbie’s 3rd letter happens. In this letter, Dolores is talking to Robbie. She says she finally found a quiet day to visit him. She is likely visiting his grave, considering Robbie’s 4th letter mentions a “mound of soil” under the juniper tree. She warmly remembers the days when “the four of us were together as a family”, even now “when my senses are fading” (due to the “medicine”). She refers to her life as “insignificant” but talks well about her parents and Robbie.

This really shows that, to Dolores, her family was her entire life. She did everything for them, and likely thought of it as her responsibility to take care of everyone, especially Robbie. Unfortunately, when their parents die, her opinion of herself decreases. She might believe she somehow failed, but especially punishes herself for being unable to explain to Robbie what happened. Now Robbie becomes her entire life, almost like a lifeline. She wants to care for him. She does her best. Unfortunately, just like with her parents, events outside of her control lead to his death. And just like with her parents’ deaths, she faults herself. It was her responsibility to keep him safe, and she failed. Without her family, who was her entire life, she feels empty, like nothing matters. All she can do is continue to tear herself apart with thoughts about Robbie’s death.

Dolores feels “desperate” like “my world is being buried”. She’s further upset with how despite what has happened, no one else seems to care, just “business as usual”. She describes everything as “suffocatingly cold. There are no feelings, no thoughts in there. Everything repeats mechanically and lifelessly”.

She also mentions the asylum staff were “wary” of her initially but she acted like a “cheerful and obedient fool” to ensure she wouldn’t be “turned down”.

We also see here hints as to Dolores’ future plans when she says “Since they've long lost their humanity and the asylum is basically hell, I may as well bury everything here!” Though, I do wonder if by the way Dolores says “Don't worry, I'll come and see you. If that makes you less lonely, I'll be happy to do so”, if she means more than to just visit his grave again. As in she plans to die to be with him.

Actually, even an earlier line implies she may plan to die, as she talks about worrying she’ll do enough for him “before I see you”. This combined with how she says “Yet now that the chance is here, whatever humiliation in the past was worth it” backs up the idea she’s been planning this for some time.

This feels similar to how Freddy’s final line in his diary for Martha implies what he’s planning to do now that he’s figured out who Emily is: “It’s almost over, this long, gloomy journey. Martha, see you in hell.”

(Actually, both Dolores and Freddy lose a loved one they can’t live without, sort of lose control over them, formulate plans that involve at least attempting to kill other people in revenge, and include a line that could imply they may be willing to die to be with the person they love again. In that case, it feels like a pretty good parallel and thus could further imply that is what Dolores means.)

Back to Robbie’s 4th letter, we see Dolores had attempted to dig up Robbie’s body apparently before a nurse pulled her away, causing Dolores to “scratch and bite the nuns and even let out chilling laughter”. Lorraine says that Dolores’ “insanity has worsened”, but the volunteer who saw Dolores taken away doesn’t quite believe this and asks where her brother is. This is to show Dolores’ actions aren’t because of Dolores having “mental illness” but just because of Robbie’s death, which the asylum seems to be trying to avoid acknowledging.

It seems Dolores is targeting asylum doctors and staff. She eventually goes after the volunteer writing Robbie’s 4th letter, but other people (based on other versions of the letter) rescue the volunteer from being killed by Dolores, who is likely killed in return (“Dolores’ face that was warped by pain” and “Dolores wasn’t coming back”).

I do want to mention 1 crack theory.

I wasn’t able to be confident enough to suggest it is what actually happened, but there was enough to it that I still wanted to summarize it.

Ok so, Dolores said she essentially pretended to be obedient (likely to drop the guard of the asylum staff and give her an opportunity to do what she needed to). I wondered if this could’ve been why she kept taking the medicine even though she tossed out Robbie’s medicine. She may have even pretended to be more insane or unwell than she actually was (meaning she may have only been “shrieking” as part of her act). But more importantly, while she was still acting “obedient”, she found out a “secret”, something about the asylum or those running it that the doctors and staff didn’t want her to know.

Before this, Robbie’s deductions 3 and 5 make it sound like Robbie and Dolores’ lives improved once Macallan and the church took over ownership of the orphanage. Everyone “looked kind”, they had “plenty of bread and milk, brand new books and clean clothes”, and they no longer had to beg. Dolores even said “things have been so good that I’m anxious”.

The reason I bring this up is because I think it’s possible the secret Dolores learned was involving the truth of the asylum and all the terrible things (and experiments) they were doing in its walls to its patients. Things weren’t as good as they seemed. It’s possible she learned something else, like if the asylum wasn’t actually concerned with the well being of its patients, and instead was primarily interested in profit (similar to Bethlem aka Bedlam asylum, the place White Sand Street is based on).

In any case, this could’ve been why she was separated from Robbie in deduction 7. It could also be why she was dragged away in Robbie’s 2nd letter. Considering the mention of the “water healing” in Robbie’s deduction 4, I wonder if this was what she was being subjected to on the 24th and 25th (maybe they also were trying to stop her from telling anyone else what she learned), though there are plenty of other methods of torture they could’ve used on Dolores.

Robbie, hearing her screaming, enters the window left open by another kid to the room Dolores is in with his axe and might’ve ended up being the “deranged patient” that “attempted to hit the doctors on duty” with his axe (like he does to survivors in game).

Anyways, the axe is his before it becomes Dolores’ and he is a kid so, similar to his inability to understand what happened to his parents, he might not understand the full reality of his actions when he attacks the doctors and thus not think much of it or have a problem doing it.

The doctors stop him (the same way they later stop Dolores during her killing spree) and end up killing him (like they do her later).

After this, I think they fake his cause of death to make it look like he died because of the broken window to hide what they did (similar to how Scrooge attempts to fake Bella’s cause of death during Atropos’ Ropes aka Golden Rose Theater).

The volunteer in Robbie’s 4th letter, after being told to clean up the mess around the window, is only given the explanation “a deranged patient attempted to hit the doctors on duty with an axe”, which sounds more like an excuse for self-defense (and why they’d attack the patient), instead of just saying the patient died in an accident involving a broken window (which sounds a lot simpler and less suspicious. The explanation they gave sounds like they’re hiding something, especially with how the volunteer says “that’s all I need to know” as if she was threatened by superiors not to ask too many questions).

(Maybe this could’ve been the “secret” Dolores discovered. Maybe she initially blamed herself for not fixing the window, but then found out how he actually died.)

Later, after Dolores is dragged from Robbie’s grave, the volunteer mentions Lorraine said Dolores’ insanity is worsening as the excuse for her actions, though the volunteer brings up Dolores’ brother being gone.

It’s possible this could be the volunteer Lorraine references in Robbie’s 1st letter, and the incident Lorraine mentions is actually Robbie’s death, just like the volunteer was asking about. Lorraine in Robbie’s 1st letter mentions “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” aka don’t lie. This may imply Lorraine has been lying, and it’s possible this could also include the lie regarding how Robbie died, as well as the lie that Dolores is insane (when she and the other children never actually were).

Then, when Dolores starts her killing spree, rather than attacking and killing indiscriminately, if Robbie had been killed by the asylum doctors/staff, that would give Dolores motivation for starting her attack in the first place and why she’d be particularly interested in killing and targeting the asylum staff.

Ok, crack theory over.

Anyways, after this incident is likely when Kreacher’s 1st letter happens, when he writes to Father Duke offering “condolences” and asking for him to transfer the kids to his “new asylum”. He uses money to attempt to reason with Duke to give him the kids, as the “chemicals” the asylum is always “brewing” is resulting in the kids being “driven to insanity or reduced to dullards”, meaning they can’t make money.

Speaking of Kreacher, based on how he says in a later letter that Macallan “didn’t last long”, I wonder if this could mean he was 1 of those killed by Dolores (which is possible if she really was targeting asylum staff in revenge).

Kreacher never does get the kids back, nor does the compensation he receives from Duke/the government amount to enough for a new orphanage, which is why he goes to the manor.

What does happen to the kids is, based on the letter Emily asking Lorraine to “evaluate the patients in the asylum once more” and “seek help from a third party professional” for “your own safety”, Lorraine requests for Baron DeRoss’ “medical advice” in Robbie’s 1st letter to help with a “diagnosis”.

This is essentially to undo the church’s initial claim that many of the kids had mental illnesses, a claim they used to create White Sand Street Asylum, this is likely why Emily emphasizes Lorraine use a 3rd party, and why she emphasizes Lorraine’s safety as the rest of the church (like Duke) likely wouldn’t be happy over this.

As part of the “upcoming consultations” and to ensure “smooth operation”, she introduces Baron DeRoss to “Father Duke as a donor”.

Soon after, the evaluations begin.

Next: Asylum Analysis Part 3

[endiecutieo6]

Kreacher and Freddy sitting in a tree, both with severe attachment issues and deeply rooted resentment that they desperately try to hold on to but is slipping away by the second because they see each other everyday, know each other better than they know themselves, seen each other in terrible states and have risked their ass to save each other (even if they didn’t want to) and while they hate it they cannot deny that they’ve gotten so attached that if they were to win this game and leave, they’d never stop missing the only person who really acknowledged them as a person.

[otakusparkle]

Season 28 is coming to an end, let’s start the final sprint!

[ladymoony-art]

"Build an orphanage..."

[scoutypb]

The thief as a dragon, next one will be Leo

More about him: If a human orphan came to him, he will give them some of his treasure & make sure they are ok His silver scales are similar to a mirror, he got them under his wings, the tip of his tail & his front crest. He has a protective membrane for his eyes when he flashes his opponent